DISPOWER

The main goals of Work Package 11 were the summary and assessment of the results achieved in the other work packages of DISPOWER and the dissemination of the activities carried out during the project.

As regards the summary and assessment, the partners produced two deliverables titled “Summary report on impact of power generators distributed in low voltage grid segments” and “Summary report on technical measures for optimum utilisation of distributed power generators”.

 
The first deliverable holds the main aspects of the analysis made as regards the socioeconomic impact of DG, the way DG affects the power quality, the relations between DG and grid topologies and the needs for changing protection and control systems in presence of DG.

The second deliverables centres on the options for optimised grid operations, the description of selected tools and concepts for grid optimisation and the outcomes coming from practical application of new techniques to manage DG.
 

Concerning the dissemination activities the partners involved in WP 11 presented several papers in national and international conference (CIRED - International Conference & Exhibition on Electricity Distribution, GUSEE - Bi-annual Meeting of Italian University Researchers in Power Systems, Italian Workshop on Electrical Distribution and Distributed Generation: Automation and Control, La Termotecnica - Italian Journal, RMEI - Mediterranean Engineering School Network, , Workshop on Contract Structures, IEEE PSCE 2004 - Power Systems conference & Exposition). Moreover a relevant number of highlight leaflets produced inside the DISPOWER project come from partners involved in WP 11.

A workshop was organised in CESI, where some partners explained part of the several results obtained: in the workshop the DISPOWER partners faced utilities, manufactures and control designers to check their reactions concerning the work done.

 
As corollary of the dissemination activities the data acquisition system (DAS), inside the CESI test facility, has been set up. It operates in the web metaphor: a web server makes the data available on the network by the HTTP protocol and there are a series of HTML pages with relative applets that take care of controlling the access right and of transmitting the data. In that way remote connections to the experimental plant are allowed in safety mode.

Finally a brochure was produced for the “First International Conference on the Integration of Renewable Energy Sources and Distributed Energy Resources” - 1st - 3rd December 2004 – Brussels. The brochure briefly presents the DISPOWER Consortium and concisely shows selected results achieved during the project till the end of December 2004 (5000 copies were printed).